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Event Date: Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 2:00 pm Speaker: Dr. Nancy Segal Dr. Nancy Segal, the world’s leading expert on twins, has a new book that sheds light on over 70 commonly held ideas and beliefs about the origins and development of identical and fraternal twins. Using the latest scientific findings from psychology, psychiatry,…

It is thought cells from a miscarried sibling were absorbed by the man while he was in the womb A US man has failed a paternity test after doctors revealed his dead twin, whose DNA the man absorbed in the womb, is the genetic father of the child. The 34-year-old man is the first ever reported case of a…

Cindy Arboleda December 19, 2017 Taylor Muhl first noticed she was different as a little girl in dance class. She discovered that she was the only one in her class who had a straight line running down the center of her torso, halving her body into two different skin colors. Muhl’s parents had consulted doctors, who…

We recently (and quite unexpectedly) found out that we are expecting for the third time. Almost immediately after the positive pregnancy test, I was inundated with first trimester symptoms. Only this time, it was different. The nausea and fatigue were unlike anything I experienced with my first two pregnancies. I was queasy or throwing up all…

Hong Kong (CNN) A team of Hong Kong doctors has described an extremely rare medical occurrence: what appeared to be a pair of fetuses inside the body of a newborn girl. They were both joined to a placenta-like mass by umbilical cords. Each one had four limbs, skin, a ribcage, intestines and primitive brain tissue, according…

Doctors in California have removed a tumour they have described as an “embryologic twin” deep inside the brain of a young woman. Yamini Karanam, 26, a PhD student in Indiana, had been experiencing difficulties with drowsiness, reading and concentration. The discovery was made when doctors performed a newly-developed form of surgery to remove the tumour….

Link To Video A Kansas family is given the news of twins, only to find out they’ll most likely go home with just one newborn. Ian and Brittani McIntire were heartbroken when doctors told them that one of their unborn twins probably will die before he is born. Baby Mason McIntire has a hole in…

An infant in the womb is extremely open and sensitive to the energies that encompass her. She may experience her environment as joyous or traumatic, depending on the quality of feeling she receives from her mother. She is ordinarily deeply affected by the mother’s emotional, mental and physical state. She does not have a sense…

Twins not only have a bestie from birth — they also live longer than singletons. And those two factors may be related, according to new University of Washington research. While twins have been subjects in countless studies that try to separate the effects of nature from nurture, a recent study in PLOS ONE is the…

You may think your body and mind are your own. In fact, you are a fusion of many organisms – including, potentially, another person. Words by David Robson, photography by Ariko Inaoka. By David Robson 18 September 2015 This story is part of BBC Future’s “Best of 2015” list, our greatest hits of the year….